nuisance vs pester

nuisance

noun
  • A minor annoyance or inconvenience. 

  • Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists. 

  • A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience. 

pester

noun
  • A bother or nuisance. 

verb
  • To bother, harass, or annoy persistently. 

How often have the words nuisance and pester occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )